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Fritz Sauckel Politician

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: Germany
  • Born: Oct 27, 1894
  • Died: Oct 16, 1946

Ernst Friedrich Christoph "Fritz" Sauckel was a German Nazi politician, Gauleiter of Thuringia and the General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment from 1942 until the end of the Second World War.

Sauckel was among the 24 persons accused in the Nuremberg Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal. He was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and was sentenced to death by hanging.

The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree. diets

I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before. sympathy

I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election. diets

I was member of the Diet as long as it existed, until May 1933. diets

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There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. 3 quotes from John Millington Synge

3 quotes from John Millington Synge

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. 28 sayings from William Butler Yeats

28 sayings from William Butler Yeats

Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep. 27 quotes from Dave Barry

27 quotes from Dave Barry

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. 74 sayings from Winston Churchill

74 sayings from Winston Churchill